Kill the Indian, Save the Child: The Residential School Tragedy of Agoni Blue Cloud

Genocide is the word Pope Francis used on July 20, 2022, to describe the 150-year history of Canada's involvement in the Residential Boarding School System. Modeled after the Carlisle Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which closed in 1918 due to substandard evaluations, residential schools in Canada continued to expand, reaching their summit of eighty schools in 1930, years after similar industrial schools in the United States were implementing day schools on reservations.

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